How to delete unicorn emojis from my iPhone

How to delete unicorn emojis from my iPhone?

iPhone XS

Posted on Oct 8, 2019 2:41 AM

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Posted on Jan 26, 2020 11:07 AM

This has a simple solution.


Go to Settings > General > Keyboard , then scroll down until you see "Memoji stickers". Toggle it off.


The unicorns are gone, voila.


A lot of people are really upset about this.

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Jan 23, 2020 2:30 PM in response to katier19

You don't need to delete or add a keyboard. To remove the unicorns (which are very popular, unicorns are "in"). Go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Memoji Stickers and turn it off.


It is at the bottom of the keyboard screen.


I don't find any of the Memoji insulting and don't personally know anyone else who does. I would never apologize for sending any of them, accidentally or not and would think it odd if someone did so. I've not seen an exploding rat head so I don't know where that came from and which Animoji's are not suitable for children?

Feb 15, 2020 3:39 AM in response to deggie

your 5 point answer didn’t help at all, just made me ****** that you tried to gaslight people for wanting their emoji keyboard to not have the top spaces taken up by ones they have no intention of ever using.


settings>general>Keyboard>Memoji and you can toggle em off. Props to atxdg for actually giving a solution instead of some woke virtue signalling

Dec 21, 2019 8:29 AM in response to Petservice

From Lifehacker - thank goodness!


On a device running iOS 13.3, go to Settings > General > Keyboard, scroll down and tap the slider next to “Memoji Keyboard” to disable Memojis in all apps. This is much easier compared to disabling Memojis in earlier versions of iOS and iPadOS 13.


lower than iOS 13.3:


  1. Open the Messages app, then open one of your conversations (it doesn’t matter which one—you just need to do this to make the right options appear).
  2. Swipe right on the app drawer at the bottom of Messages, and then tap the “...” icon.
  3. Tap “Edit” to open the More Apps list.
  4. Scroll down and disable “Memoji Stickers” from the app list.
  5. Close the menu. The next time you open the keyboard, your emojis list should now look more like it did in pre-Memoji eras of iOS.


Feb 13, 2020 10:08 PM in response to Jim Locke

For those who might be confused by deggie’s post, you DO in fact go to Settings>General>Keyboard>MEMOJI to turn these things off.


To deggie, the POINT was that 1) nobody who wants these things gone cares what they are called, 2) Clippy was a “feature” that many people also found annoying but was ALWAYS optional, 3) half a dozen pages of pages of complaints indicates it was a problem for long enough to show that this was a poorly thought out feature.


I like unicorns, but I don’t like half my keyboard real estate taken up with an errant swipe. I also don’t like fanbois who can’t possibly conceive why someone with a corporate issued phone would like to have a keyboard with commonly used business appropriate emoticons instead of animals. For those of us who actually do work in technology, it’s frustrating to see poorly thought out features deployed into what’s otherwise a pretty good system.

And finally I don’t like the number of times I’ve seen your handle on this thread. It was amusing for a while but it’s getting really tiresome.

I figured out how to turn this “feature” that I don’t like off after scrolling through several pages of comments. I’m unsubscribing from this thread, so unless you want to contact me directly, I doubt I’ll see the reply that you’ll undoubtedly write.


And BTW, clippy was an animated assistant—not an “icon”. When you read that clippy “became an icon” because of its notoriety, it seems that figure of speech was lost on you. An “icon” is something that stands for something else, e.g. a small picture that represents a file or folder.



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